diff --git a/osu.Framework.SourceGeneration.Tests/GeneratorTestHelper.cs b/osu.Framework.SourceGeneration.Tests/GeneratorTestHelper.cs
index 9769eff76..8acaa934f 100644
--- a/osu.Framework.SourceGeneration.Tests/GeneratorTestHelper.cs
+++ b/osu.Framework.SourceGeneration.Tests/GeneratorTestHelper.cs
@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ namespace osu.Framework.SourceGeneration.Tests
         {
             Compilation = CSharpCompilation.Create("test",
                 references: new[] { MetadataReference.CreateFromFile(typeof(object).Assembly.Location) },
-                options: new CSharpCompilationOptions(OutputKind.DynamicallyLinkedLibrary));
+                options: new CSharpCompilationOptions(OutputKind.DynamicallyLinkedLibrary, optimizationLevel: OptimizationLevel.Release));
         }
 
         public GeneratorDriverRunResult RunGenerators(ref GeneratorDriver driver)
diff --git a/osu.Framework.SourceGeneration.Tests/Verifiers/CSharpMultiPhaseSourceGeneratorVerifier_Test.cs b/osu.Framework.SourceGeneration.Tests/Verifiers/CSharpMultiPhaseSourceGeneratorVerifier_Test.cs
index 6b4e071cd..781da8938 100644
--- a/osu.Framework.SourceGeneration.Tests/Verifiers/CSharpMultiPhaseSourceGeneratorVerifier_Test.cs
+++ b/osu.Framework.SourceGeneration.Tests/Verifiers/CSharpMultiPhaseSourceGeneratorVerifier_Test.cs
@@ -35,8 +35,6 @@ namespace osu.Framework.SourceGeneration.Tests.Verifiers
                 driver = CSharpGeneratorDriver.Create(generator = new TSourceGenerator());
                 driver = driver.WithUpdatedParseOptions(CSharpParseOptions.Default.WithLanguageVersion(LanguageVersion));
 
-                generator.ForceRun = true;
-
                 this.commonSources = commonSources;
                 this.commonGenerated = commonGenerated;
                 this.multiPhaseSources = multiPhaseSources;
diff --git a/osu.Framework.SourceGeneration.Tests/Verifiers/CSharpSourceGeneratorVerifier_Test.cs b/osu.Framework.SourceGeneration.Tests/Verifiers/CSharpSourceGeneratorVerifier_Test.cs
index 3a7417030..a18203f56 100644
--- a/osu.Framework.SourceGeneration.Tests/Verifiers/CSharpSourceGeneratorVerifier_Test.cs
+++ b/osu.Framework.SourceGeneration.Tests/Verifiers/CSharpSourceGeneratorVerifier_Test.cs
@@ -20,6 +20,11 @@ namespace osu.Framework.SourceGeneration.Tests.Verifiers
 
             protected override IEnumerable<Type> GetSourceGenerators() => [typeof(TSourceGenerator)];
 
+            protected override CompilationOptions CreateCompilationOptions()
+            {
+                return base.CreateCompilationOptions().WithOptimizationLevel(OptimizationLevel.Release);
+            }
+
             protected override ParseOptions CreateParseOptions()
             {
                 return ((CSharpParseOptions)base.CreateParseOptions()).WithLanguageVersion(LanguageVersion);
diff --git a/osu.Framework.SourceGeneration/Generators/AbstractIncrementalGenerator.cs b/osu.Framework.SourceGeneration/Generators/AbstractIncrementalGenerator.cs
index bb88eaf0d..60bd8c9bd 100644
--- a/osu.Framework.SourceGeneration/Generators/AbstractIncrementalGenerator.cs
+++ b/osu.Framework.SourceGeneration/Generators/AbstractIncrementalGenerator.cs
@@ -14,11 +14,6 @@ namespace osu.Framework.SourceGeneration.Generators
     {
         public readonly GeneratorEventDriver EventDriver = new GeneratorEventDriver();
 
-        /// <summary>
-        /// Whether the generator should be forcefully run, even if building as debug.
-        /// </summary>
-        public bool ForceRun;
-
         public void Initialize(IncrementalGeneratorInitializationContext context)
         {
             // Stage 1: Create SyntaxTarget objects for all classes.
@@ -28,7 +23,7 @@ namespace osu.Framework.SourceGeneration.Generators
                            (ctx, _) => returnWithEvent(new IncrementalSyntaxTarget((ClassDeclarationSyntax)ctx.Node, ctx.SemanticModel), EventDriver.OnSyntaxTargetCreated))
                        .Select((t, _) => t.WithName())
                        .Combine(context.CompilationProvider)
-                       .Where(c => ForceRun || c.Right.Options.OptimizationLevel == OptimizationLevel.Release)
+                       .Where(c => c.Right.Options.OptimizationLevel == OptimizationLevel.Release)
                        .Select((t, _) => t.Item1)
                        .Select((t, _) => returnWithEvent(t.WithSemanticTarget(CreateSemanticTarget), EventDriver.OnSemanticTargetCreated));